Paying for college:
| New course | 400/500 course |
| First term offered : Spring 2013 | ||
| Course Prefix&Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| ANTH 492/592 | Oregon Tribal Culture and History | 4 - 0 |
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Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Oregon Tribes |
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Catalog Description: A course relating histories and anthropological studies of Oregon tribes juxtaposed with national and international histories of settlement and colonization. We will investigate unique cases of Federal Indian policy for Oregon tribes, including treaty rights, termination, and fishing and water rights. The course will challenge students by presenting parallel layers of information, from Federal Indian law, anthropological studies of tribes, and ¿oral histories¿ of lived Tribal experiences of the past 220 years. Students will learn from invited Tribal speakers of significant events in the past 60 years for the tribes, and about diverse tribal geography and cultural environments. This local information will be intersected with national issues for tribes and with international indigenous contexts for the past 500+ years. |
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Course Goal and Objectives: Students will understand Oregon tribal ethnohistory for the last two centuries and will be able to relate significant tribal experiences to national and international histories of the past 500+ years. Students will meet the Indigenous peoples of Oregon in their own words, history, ethnography and context. Students will gain understanding of federal, state and tribal sovereignty distinctions and issues. Students will complete individual research on an issue in Oregon tribal history drawing on multiple sources and reflecting multiple perspectives. In addition, graduate students will complete a second research project relevant to their degree program and teach a one-hour session based on this research and integrated into the course schedule at an appropriate point. |
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Justification for adding the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): This course provides an opportunity for Western Oregon University students to benefit from the knowledge and expertise of a member of the Grand Ronde community and tribal government as well as other Oregon Indian leaders and scholars. In doing so we further the goals of anthropology and the WOU diversity action plan: to explain and understand human behavior and cultural diversity; to create respect for and appreciation of Oregon's Indian people; to increase the diversity of the WOU faculty; to promote active engagement of WOU students with surrounding communities, including Grand Ronde, other tribes in Oregon, and Oregon's urban Indian communities; and to foster a campus environment that is inclusive and accessible, especially for WOU Native students. Provides an upper division elective for students in anthropology and other majors. Provides graduate credit appropriate for students in History, Criminal Justice, and Education programs, at the discretion of the respective programs. |
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Faculty and facilities needed: Adjunct Instructor: David Gene Lewis, PhD, Tribal Museum Curator/Cultural Liaison, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Smart classroom. |
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Brief Course outline: ANTH 492/592 Oregon Tribal Culture and History, David G. Lewis Week Topics/Readings 1. Introduction to Oregon Indians, map of Native homelands, reservations, major geographical features. Read Wilkinson (Introduction); Douthit Introduction to Oregon Indian history: contact, settlement, Hudson¿s Bay Company, Whitman massacre, Jason Lee and first Indian School, Astoria. Read Douthit. 2. Oregon Indian history continued: treaties, volunteers, Oregon statehood and territorial government, Rogue River War, Modoc War, early US government management of Indians, beginning of reservations, Chemawa and Indian education, Dawes Act. Read: Wilkinson. Continue Oregon Indian history: map test, citizenship, Indian Reorganization Act, Assimilation policies. 3. Continue Oregon Indian history: termination, Federal assimilation policies in the termination era, fishing and hunting rights, begin restoration of Federal recognition. Continue Oregon Indian History: Restoration of Oregon Indian Tribes, casinos, contemporary era. 4. Anthropology and the management of Indians, John Collier, Anthropology Theory, Education and Anthropology, BIA BIA and Congressional Indian Policy history. 5. Continue BIA and Congressional Indian Policy history. Klamath Termination and associated issues. 6. Continue Klamath Termination and associated issues. Grand Ronde Termination and associated issues. 7. Continue Grand Ronde Termination and associated issues. Warm Springs history. Read Aguilera. 8. Indian History during the Termination era, cultural effects of termination, language extinction. American Indian activism, AIM. 9. Continue American Indian activism, Deloria critique of anthropology, creation of American Indian Studies, NAGPRA Issues in Restoration from termination and Federal recognition of Oregon tribes, overlapping homelands and traditional cultural properties. 10. SWORP and other restorative acts, decolonization models of the future. Review: a day of questions and answers. Finals Week |
| Step | Approver | Decision | Timestamp |
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| 1 - Department | Robin Smith | Approved | November 23 2012 |
| 2 - Division | Mark Henkels | Approved | January 30 2013 |
| 3 - Division Curriculum | Mark Henkels | Approved | January 31 2013 |
| 5 - Graduate Committee | Kimberly Jensen | Approved | February 21 2013 |
| 5 - Curriculum Committee | Thaddeus Shannon | Approved | February 19 2013 |
| 6 - Faculty Senate | Keller Coker | Approved | February 21 2013 |
| 7 - Dean | Stephen Scheck | Approved | February 23 2013 |
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Comments: Can catalog course description be edited to reduce word count? |
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| 8 - Provost | Kent Neely | Approved | February 25 2013 |
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